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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Journey to simplicity | |
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| Building the Case for Global Living | |
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| Inside Ourselves | |
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| Outside Ourselves | |
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| We Have No Other Choice | |
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| A Culture of Global Living | |
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| Material | |
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| Non-material | |
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| Three Sacred Cows | |
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| Lovable Limits | |
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| Sustainability in Action | |
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| Learning from the Chumash | |
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| The Muir Trail | |
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| Learning from Kerala | |
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| Theories | |
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| Experiences | |
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| Practical Lessons | |
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| The Kani | |
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| Leaving Kerala | |
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| The Global Living Project | |
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| The Findings | |
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| Three Tools | |
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| Sharing the Earth | |
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| Living Equitably | |
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| Inter-species Equity | |
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| Inter-human Equity | |
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| Inter-generational Equity | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| The Sustainability Sweatshop | |
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| Simple Goal Setting | |
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| Tough, Sweaty Goal Setting | |
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| Cool-down and Visualization | |
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| Three Tools | |
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| Ecological Footprinting | |
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| Your Money Or Your Life | |
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| Learning From Nature | |
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| Whole Systems | |
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| The First Tool--Ecological Footprinting | |
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| Footprinting Science | |
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| What's In a Footprint? | |
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| Calculating Footprints | |
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| How Big is My Footprint? | |
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| How Big is My Paycheck? | |
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| Quick Footprint Quiz | |
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| The Footprinting Calculator | |
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| Footprinting Language | |
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| Using the Calculator | |
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| Fine-tuning the Calculator | |
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| Making Comparisons | |
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| Footprinting | |
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| What You'll Need | |
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| A Few Questions | |
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| Flows | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Determining Your Footprint | |
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| The Second Tool--Your Money or Your Life | |
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| The Nine Steps of YMOYL | |
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| The Family of Fulfillment Curves | |
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| Four Qualities and Six Realities of "Enoughness" | |
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| Why is this Tool so Timely? | |
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| The Making of a Movement | |
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| Success Stories | |
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| Ways to Use This Tool | |
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| Financial Independence | |
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| Periodic Financial Independence | |
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| Flexible Work | |
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| A Job You Truly Believe In? | |
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| Restorative Employment | |
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| The First Five Steps | |
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| Making Peace with the Past | |
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| Being in the Present | |
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| Where is it All Going? | |
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| Three Questions that will Transform Your Life | |
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| Making Life Energy Visible | |
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| The Third Tool--Learning From Nature | |
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| Courting the Wild | |
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| Fear of Nature | |
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| Being in Nature | |
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| Secret Spot | |
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| Walking Meditation | |
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| Owl Walk | |
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| Vision Quest | |
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| Doing in Nature | |
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| Day Walks | |
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| Tracking | |
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| Overnights | |
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| Human-powered Activity | |
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| Harvesting Wild Foods and Medicines | |
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| Harvesting Fuel and Fiber | |
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| Harvesting Fertility | |
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| Vegetable Gardening | |
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| Studying Nature | |
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| Watersheds | |
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| Identification and Behavior | |
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| Ecology | |
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| Biomimicry | |
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| At Home in Nature | |
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| Integration | |
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| Applying the Tools | |
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| Getting Strategic | |
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| Big-ticket Items | |
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| Low-hanging Fruit | |
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| The Triple Bottom Line Test | |
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| Improving Energy Efficiency | |
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| Efficiency's Caution | |
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| Guiding Principles | |
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| Good Old-fashioned Principles | |
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| Permaculture Principles | |
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| Spiritual Principles | |
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| The Wiseacre Challenge | |
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| Who Lives on One Wiseacre? | |
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| Experiencing Poverty | |
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| Wiseacre Scenarios | |
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| Wiseacre Food | |
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| Wiseacre Housing | |
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| Wiseacre Transportation | |
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| Wiseacre Goods and Services | |
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| Wiseacre Stocks | |
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| Wiseacre Wastes | |
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| The One-hundred-year Plan | |
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| Freely Choosing to Have Fewer Children | |
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| The One-hundred-year Plan | |
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| Who Is Having Small Families | |
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| Making it Personal--The Options | |
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| Simplified Population Model | |
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| One-child Families | |
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| Two-child Families | |
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| Three-child Families | |
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| Family Size Versus Wild Space | |
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| Sustainability and Family Size | |
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| Toward a Sustainable Future | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Footprint Factors | |
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| Footprinting Worksheets | |
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| YMOYL Worksheets | |
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| Wiseacre Worksheets | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |